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who owns motorola

Motorola’s phone business (the “Motorola” smartphone brand you see today) is owned by Lenovo , the Chinese multinational tech company based in Beijing and Hong Kong–listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Quick Scoop

  • The Motorola smartphone brand (Motorola Mobility) is a Lenovo-owned consumer electronics brand focused on Android phones and related devices.
  • Lenovo bought Motorola Mobility from Google and now designs, manufactures, and markets Motorola phones globally.
  • Above Lenovo, the ownership chain ultimately ties back to Legend Holdings and then to entities controlled by the Chinese Academy of Sciences , a state-linked research institution in China.

Who owns “Motorola” today?

There are actually two “Motorolas” people talk about:

  1. Motorola phones (Motorola Mobility / Motorola brand on smartphones)
    • Current owner: Lenovo Group Limited.
 * Lenovo uses Motorola as its main global smartphone brand outside China, especially in North America, Latin America, and parts of Europe.
  1. Motorola Solutions (professional radios, networks, public safety gear)
    • This is the business that continued after the original Motorola split and is a separate, publicly traded U.S. company (not owned by Lenovo). It focuses on communications infrastructure and public safety rather than consumer phones.

Most people asking “who owns Motorola” today are really asking about Motorola phones , and that answer is Lenovo.

Ownership chain behind Lenovo

If you want to go one layer deeper into “who owns the owner”:

  • Lenovo Group Limited is the direct owner of the Motorola phone brand.
  • Lenovo’s parent/controlling shareholder is Legend Holdings Corporation , a Chinese diversified investment holding company.
  • The largest shareholder of Legend Holdings is Chinese Academy of Sciences Holdings Co., Ltd. , a wholly state-owned company under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
  • CAS itself is a state-level research institution ultimately controlled and funded by the Government of the People’s Republic of China.

So in simple terms:

Motorola phones → owned by Lenovo → controlled through Legend Holdings → ultimately tied to China’s state-linked research system via the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

A bit of recent-history context

To put the “who owns Motorola” storyline in order:

  1. Original Motorola, Inc. split in 2011 into:
    • Motorola Mobility (phones/consumer devices).
    • Motorola Solutions (enterprise and public-safety communications).
  1. Google bought Motorola Mobility mainly for its patents during the Android patent wars era.
  1. Lenovo later acquired Motorola Mobility from Google, turning Motorola into Lenovo’s global smartphone arm.

Today, when tech forums or news sites mention “Motorola phones,” they are talking about a Lenovo-owned brand operating under this Lenovo/Legend/CAS ownership stack.

Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.